Mother's Milk: Breastfeeding from Metaphor to Practice (Conference)

Sunday, October 23, 2022 - All Day Event

Birthing Bodies/Birthing Art Sun., Oct 23, (2-5pm) REGISTRATION


Mother’s Milk: Breastfeeding from Metaphor to Practice
Fri., October 21 - Sun., October 23
University of New Hampshire and Online (ET)

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The conference is generously funded by the UNH Center for Humanities, the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies.

Sunday, October 23

11am-12:30pm Milky Mothers: Pure and Impure (Zoom)

Christopher Richards (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University): The Virgin Mary Breastfeeds: Theorizing Materiality and Images

Samantha Katz Seal (University of New Hampshire): ​​“Yeve the Child to Sowke:” On (Not) Breastfeeding the Infant in Chaucer’s Reeve’s Tale

Angelica Pesarini (University of Toronto): Black Mothers, White Children: Expressions of Subaltern Identities in Fascist East Africa

Laure Barillas (University of New Hampshire), Chair and Respondent

12:30-1 pm Reflections (Zoom)

Harriet Fertik (Ohio State University) and Anna Wainwright (University of New Hampshire)

2-5 pm, Artist Conversation and Reception: Birthing Bodies/Birthing Art (Hybrid: UNH-Durham Campus and Livestream)
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Loudon Wainwright III (recording artist): “Rufus is a Tit Man” (recorded performance)

Tirtzah Bassel (School of Visual Arts in New York City and Chashama Workspace Program): Canon in Drag

Katie Umans (University of New Hampshire): Milk as Metaphor: A Look at Contemporary Poetry

Shilpa Darivemula and Isha Parupudi (Aseemkala Initiative): Exploring the Mythology Around Breastfeeding and Wet Nurses: A Dance-Discussion on Pūtanā

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Contact Info
Hartford, Lisa
603-862-2190